posted by Sierra Marquina -

2 weeks ago

Frances McDormand delivered a powerful and emotional speech while accepting the Best Actress award at the 90th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 4. The Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri actress was heard around the globe when she asked each female nominee in the audience to stand.

“So I’m hyperventilating a little bit so if I fall over pick me up cause I got some things to say,” McDormand said at the beginning of her speech, visibly shaking. “I think this is what Chloe Kim must have felt like after she did back to back 1080s.”

After thanking her family and placing her Oscar statue on the floor for perspective, she invited all female nominees in the audience to stand and join her in the win.

"If I may be so honored to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight," she said. "Meryl [Streep] if you do it, everybody else will, come on."

"The filmmakers, the producers, the directors, the writers, the cinemotographers, the composers, the songwriters, the designers, come on," McDormand continued. "Look around, look around...because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed."